I've been an art and design educator for 10 years. Working in both the UK and internationally. I believe it is incredibly important to nurture globally-minded students who are able to communicate visually and apply critical thinking to the art and media we all consume daily.
I've been an art and design educator for 10 years. Working in both the UK and internationally. I believe it is incredibly important to nurture globally-minded students who are able to communicate visually and apply critical thinking to the art and media we all consume daily.
Incredibly high resolution butterfly images featuring 3 different designs and differentiated for both right and left handed students. Perfect for independent work and distant learners or as a cover lesson.
Incredibly easy salt dough sculptures enabling students to achieve great 3D results at home with very little equipment. This is a perfect task ready to email for distance learning, for independent learning tasks or homework. The task is linked to British female sculptor Barbara Hepworth and asks students to analyse a piece of her work before creating their own.
Two pages of fun, simple coverwork with full explanation on the worksheet. Students have three templates to first design a sneaker and a larger template to resolve their final design.
Equipment needed:
colour pencils
worksheet
A display resource with 25 illustrations of women artists, this collection takes your students through four centuries of female artistic brilliance. From the Baroque to Contemporary visionaries, each page portrays the diverse talents of women artists who’ve left an indelible mark on the art world. More than just a visual resource; it’s a celebration of resilience, creativity, and the power of women’s voices. Created to help address the deficit in student knowledge of women in art due to the cultural collective.
Print onto card stock and display around you classroom.
Created from the need to simplify ACCESS FM product analysis for younger students. The worksheet helps students organise their thinking and reminds them of the useful acronym with a question prompt for each letter. The product analysis worksheet could also be used in a cover lesson.
Great little insect sculpture independent learning task. Full instructions on how to create a small insect sculpture. Looking at the work of Raku Inoue the worksheet asks students to think about materials and their properties and how changing the materials can change the meaning of the art works. Great for distance learning can be easily emailed to students, doesn’t require student to print.
High resolution shell images. 6 full colour pages. 2 pages of 4 per page and 4 pages of 1 per page. Resource also contains black and white versions for tonal pencil drawings.
High quality reference photo sheets for fruit and food projects. Great classroom resource for printing and laminating. 2 pages with 4 images per page and 7 full page photos. Students can use these images to make beautiful observational drawings when real objects are limited.
Three fantastic colour theory exercises for KS3 students. Three easy to use worksheets are included going over a range of colour mixing activities. Designed to be used with paint but easily adapted for colour pencil. Great tool for exploring new knowledge or for revising knowledge in a cover lesson.
Two fantastic complete cover lessons with variations to give students choice. Great for KS3 or KS4. Students can complete these one the page or in their sketchbooks. One cover lesson asks students to draw food items in the style of Andy Warhol, Sarah Graham or Wayne Thiebaud considering their styles and techniques and how to incorporate them into their work. The second cover lesson is an observational drawing task either tonal drawing using mark making or colour pencil focused on blending colours. With 7 variations this is a comprehensive pack with each task also differentiated for left handed learners there are 14 page in total.
A comprehensive list of over 100 questions to help students analyse and critically assess artworks. This resource is aimed at teachers and could be used by embedding questions into schemes of learning, incorporated into your questioning repertoire or in the creation of resources for your students.
25 high quality photos of different textures. Animal skin, fur, scales and feathers. Wood, water, stone, plants, earth and ice. Fantastic for printing and laminating for students to reference and draw from. Observational studies, texture experiments, references for painting or sketching. There are many great ways to use this collection of images.
9 different tonal shading worksheets designed for KS3 or KS4. These sheets can be used as exercises in class to support observational skills or set as homework or cover. Each worksheet covers a different aspect of tonal shading and observation from applying shading to 2D shapes to turn them into 3D forms to looking at complex textures and reflections in glass. Perfect for emailing home. Worksheets have also been differentiated for left handed learners.
Screen printing workshop perfect for IB/GCSE/iGCSE/Alevel. Designed to be split over two lessons or as a day or half day workshop. Covers “how to” for stencil method or photo emulsion and how to print. Asks students to research the history of the technique and includes two Theory of Knowledge (IB) questions
Using a long life milk carton or juice carton you can introduce students to the etching process in a low cost effective way. In this workshop students are introduced to the etching technique asked theory of knowledge questions and taken through the process. Student examples are also included at a variety of ability levels. Materials needed are juice boxes or cartons with silver foil interior. I ask staff to drop off almond milk/longlife milk cartons to the art dept for recycling. sharp needles or sharp compasses are also needed. This workshop lends itself well to any theme students may be working on.
Grid drawing worksheets. Pack includes differentiated sheets for left handed students and simplified instructions for younger students. Worksheets include a lesson plan with success criteria and three different butterfly designs. Can be emailed home for distance learners. Great for KS3 and potentially KS2
A fantastic, comprehensive KS3 scheme of learning. Covering pen drawing, oil pastel transfer, collagraph printing, photography and colour pencil drawing.
Theme: Insects and butterflies
Elements/principles of art focus: pattern, texture, colour and balance
Skill focus: observational drawing skills and printing techniques.
Artists mentioned: Damien Hirst, Lucy Arnold and Raku Inoue.
Five different creative tasks asking students to explore new perspectives. One group work task which can also be achieved in distance learning. High resolution images included for all tasks as well as photographic step by steps, student examples and a you tube demonstration of oil pastel transfer. Starter tasks and creative thinking tasks are included for each lesson.
Additional independent learning/cover work sheet included.